Originally Posted by
wingman2
I will no doubt be corrected if wrong, but our nationals run over 2 days. Saturday is for 19t or 10.5 motors only whilst Sunday is broken down into 2 classes: Sportsman (12t limit) or Open (whatever mod or brushless you like). There are also a couple of 2 day events for each class as well. Most, if not all events are fully booked out and do indeed have the best drivers competing at them. It's amazing to watch the finals as you may think that you are a good driver, but nothing compared to them when they are putting 4 or 5 laps on you!
You're pretty much there except that sports modified (sportsman) is 12T brushed or you can use your 10.5 brushless again, giving you the chance to use the same motor for both days. The majority of drivers use 10.5 brushless in sports modified as well as stock.
We have just as many drivers entering the stock class (19T/10.5T) as we do the modified classes. In the UK we do only have the 3 classes in total though.
The Chesterfield meeting was the modified grand prix meeting where you run the same class over the two days with 6 qualifiers and 3 finals (mains) (best 2 of 3 count) with a couple of practice rounds added, so 11 runs over the weekend.
I was running in sports modified and actually found the track a lot less technical than it first looked. Very flowing actually and a lot of fun to drive.
All the 3 open modified A finals were pretty awesome to watch with Andy M, Elliott and Andy G pulling a bit of a gap on the rest, but the others weren't exactly slouches either!
Trev